Canadian Milos Raonic has been named the ATP Tour's Newcomer of the Year. This award is voted on by fellow players, so Milos has garnered much recognition from his peers this season. It usually goes to the player who has moved up the most in the rankings during the year. Raonic began the season ranked No. 156 in the world and reached a career-high ranking of No. 25 in May. This made Raonic the highest ranked singles player in Canadian history. He was also the first Canadian to win an ATP tour title in 16 years when he won San Jose back in February. He followed that victory up by making the finals in Memphis the very next week. Milos his a rough patch when he was injured during Wimbledon and had to undergo surgery, but continued to show promising results after making his comeback.<\/p>\n
The news comes just days after Milos played an exhibition match with his idol Pete Sampras, who won 14 major Grand Slam titles in his historic career. Raonic defeated Sampras in straight sets, with Sampras keeping things close in the first set only to be blown out in the second. After the match, the tennis legend confirmed what we've always known about Raonic's serve: it's \"a weapon\". Sampras went on to say that \"[Milos] serves harder than Andre [Agassi] does \u2026 when he can serve 135, 140 mph on the line and really pick your spots, that\u2019s a pretty good weapon to have. So he\u2019s on his way.\" Read more about 'The Face Off' here<\/a>.<\/p>\n That's a resounding endorsement coming from Sampras, especially now that Raonic has been recognized as the ATP Tour Newcomer of the Year. It's a good time to be a Canadian tennis fan!<\/p>\n -multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Canadian Milos Raonic has been named the ATP Tour’s Newcomer of the Year. This award is voted on by fellow players, so Milos has garnered much recognition from his peers this season. It usually goes to the player who has moved up the most in the rankings during the year. Raonic began the season ranked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}